run-time

(also runtime)

noun [C or U] IT

Definition

› the amount of time it takes for a computer program to perform a task: The run-time will be five hours.

› the time at which a computer program begins a task: I've set the run-time for five o'clock.

(Definition of run-time noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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